Griffon with tongue protruding from the neck observed
in France

On the 26thJuly Francesco Panuello saw and photographed 6 griffon vultures flying above a valley in the Alpes de Haute Provence (04). Francesco soon noticed that one of the vultures had its
tongue protruding through its throat, hanging awkwardly below its beak (see photos).

What is most remarkable is that others had already reported
this type of “injury”. Camina & Guerrero had already observed one griffon (a sub adult) with an identical condition in 2010 in the Spanish Pyrenees – see paper below, and they have also
uncovered another older record that probably refers to the same situation. Interestingly, they observed thatthe tonguemoved forward and backward while the bird was eating!
Could this be the same bird?